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Chicago examiner monday Chicago march 20 1 911 18 pages monday take a roomer or two it helps ont with the rent womferfalli rooms are advertised every day ju^t such rooms as yours the most desirable and the greatest number of people use the examiner classified coi - umns exclusively 0 p3sb-3 oft price one cent mint sy cajrja m canta oer maath r^<^b and vicinity fair morv jffll s atj^bid probablv toasday mod * erare temperature aterly winds t^a^x â– ' becoming variable highest . . r m jmaw lowest 86 ftfc vq average 44 vol ix no 76,-^-a m second shot is new schenk mystery . coroner searches for another bullet he believes was fired in tragedy scattered clothes clew fraser tells of meeting with mrs schenk on fatal even ing inquest to-day after two days of investigation on the part of tho police and coroner peter hoff man assisted by deputy charles davis the mystery surrounding the death of charles schenk superintendent of the park ridge branch of the northwestern qas light & coke company who was shot early saturday morning by bis wife mrs jessie schenk la their bome in park ridge following a night of revelry with friends becomes more involved each hour here are the questions which must be cleared up before the mystery of the trag edy bas been solved was a second bullet fired as coroner hoffman believes and if so what became wt it did mr and mrs schenk engage in a tuarrel in which the name ef one of the guests was mentioned after the departure of their friends was mrs schenk awakened by the cries of her hnsband who she says left her side while she was asleep why did mrs schenk tell two conflict ing stories following the arrival of friends fallowing the shooting first that he had been shot by a burgler and later that she bad shot bim fraser's name mentioned what significance attaches to the fact that mrs schenk in her statement to the coroner meutions the name of chick fraser as having been the subject of con versation between herself and husband on retiring why did mrs schenk assert that she and her husband had gone to bed to gether when according to the teatimony of neighbors her hnsband was ln the hawt of sleeping en a couch ln a small den ln the rear of mrs schenk's bed raomf is the explanation made by mrs schenk sufficient to account for the fact that schenk was nude when he went to the first floor of the house following ls a stenographic report of the statement made by mrs schenk to coroner hoffman a few hours after the shooting took place her subsequent statements made yesterday both to the coroner and to dr s a woodworth embody the prin cipal assertions although there is incon sistency in many of the details a a ty t i t __> mn schenk s statement q now mrs schenk tell ns jnst how lt happened a l know i killed him he called me and i de not know whether i pulled the trigger or gave it to him but i am rare i did lt nobody else did it we had company q what time did the company go home a mr fraser was here yon know q what time did he go home a he is here te answer for himself q what time did you retire this morn ing a half past four or five q did mr schenk retire at the same time a yes <}â€” what happened after 5 o'clock a â€” h called me jessie jessie i jumped op lt was something unusual he bas his revolver in the cabinet it was on top which was an anusual thing i grabbed it and ran downstairs he was in the hall ta a sort of kneeling position i wouldn't swear but i think i pulled the trigger and did not give lt to him q how many shots were fired a l dent know i know i killed him i know i did i could not see who was lying there he was kneeling down q what was he doing there a â€” l do not know i was asleep when he called me q where was the revolver a lt was en the dresser stood on sixth step q where were you when lt was dis charged a l have a feeling that i stood on the sixth step and i know i killed him then i threw it away when i did it i did not know whether lt was him or somebody else q had you been quarreling a no we went to bed so happy following were mrs schenk's statements made ln reply to questions put by dr woodworth : q do you suppose he came down here to the bathroom a l think perhaps i tfc-rve never known him to get up and come down but he called me in such an unusual and frightened way that he must have been in or frightened there was not any other reason that i could attribute for his calling me but be called jessie jessie bd it woke me up how did he happen to have the re volver a the gas company bought him the revolver and it was always in the small drawer in the dresser ln its case bartzen demands civil service for every county employe let bill include hospital dunning and oak forest heads measure now pending at springfield should be broadened is answer of board's presi dent to his political critics make the examination more rigid standard oil loses in u s supreme court is report washington hears that decision expected at any time is in favor of government washington march 19 â€” a report apparently well authenticated is current in washington to-night that the su preme court has decided the standard oil case in favor of the government the attorneys for the standard oil expect a decision any time their information is that while their case is definitely settled the decision in the tobacco case is still up in the air and is not likely to come until after recess which is to be taken to-morrow until april 3 both of the big trusts will have counsel present in the supreme court chambers to-morrow and arrangements have been made by some financial interests to have any decision that is rendered in the big cases flashed to wall street as soon after the announcement as possible at the same time '+. is learned here to-night that steps have been taken in advance to protect the stocks of the big concerns in the event of an adverse decision booker t washington mistaken for peeper beaten and arrested negro educator attacked while looking for friend's flat in n y sent to hospital new york march 19 booker t washington the great negro educator president of tuskegee institute and friend of presidents and statesmen was mistaken for a jack the peeper to-night and so badly beaten that he had to be sent to flower hospital where two wonnds four inches each in length had to be sewed up and his left ear almost torn from his head had to be dressed and bandaged in addition his head and shoulders were covered with abrasions and contusions all inflicted by elbert tjlrlch of 11 west sixty-third street mr washington had gone to that ad dress after attending church services to keep an appointment with e 0 smith auditor of taskegee institute who was visiting his cousin mr washington had looked over the names on the bells in the vestibule bnt had been unable to identify any one of them as that of mr smith's cousin therefore he says he went back to the street but later returned to the vestibule and it was then that dlrich pounced upon him mr washington tried to defend himself but tjlrlch was too much for him so mr washington pulled away and ran with dlrich in hot pursuit they ran into pa trolman tierney dlrich shouted to the policeman to place the negro under arrest just as mr washington stopped and sought the proptection of the policeman at the police station lieutenant qnlnn proceeded to take mr washington's pedi gree before placing him ln a cell then he summoned an ambulance dlrich said that mrs dlrich had gone out with the dog she returned imme diately and said a negro was larking abou tthe hall peeking through a key hole in the building how about this story asked the lieu tenant of sir washington it is about correct save for the peek ing saia mr washington bnt you ran when this man attacked yon said the lieutenant of course i did said mr washington and so would you look at his sine lieutenant quinn immediately dismissed the complaint against mr washington dlrich was ordered to apepar in court to morrow morning to answer to a charge of assesltj y '. a word to citizens mr merriam and his friends in the legislature think that your honest friend mr bartzen ought to be investigated fbr seeking to dis miss doctors like those who are on the public pay roll and on the trac tion company's pay roll as well what do you as a citizen think ? ought mr bartzen to have al lowed these doctors to take the public money for treating injured citi zens and then take traction money for testifying in the interest of the railroad company which had injured the citizens the examiner would like to know whether it is worth while for a fearless official like mr bartzen to honestly serve the people the examiner would like to know what the citizens think of doctors who take pay with one hand from the citizens and with the other hand from the citizen's assailants the examiner will pay 50 for the best letter on this question we do not care so muoh for literary style as for clear forceful expres sions of honest opinion write us whether you think mr merriam and his friends in the legislature are right in investigating mr bartzen or whether mr bartzen is right in seeking to rid county depart ments of these two-faoed and two-handed doctors peter bartzen-'-flghtlng peter"-p re sident of the board of commissioners of cook county has an answer ready for all those who have become imbued with the idea that he is opposed to civil service regulations in the administration of the affairs of the county there is a cook county civil service measure now pending before the members of the general assembly in springfield the bill is com prehenslve in its scope president bartzen does not think it goes far enough 5 a i<lr president bartzen believes the proposed law should be broadened and that it should be made to include every employe of the county the pending bill excepts the heads of the three big cook county institutions-the cook county hospital the dunning institution and oak forest i would put the three heads of these big institutions under civil service regulations said president bartzen last night this is peter bartzen s answer to his critics who say that he is opposed to civil service will urge that measure be broadened i am not opposed to civil service i believe in it it is a good thing and i am going to urge with all of the energy i possess and lawson's pet bear on rampage closes town posse catches teddy after he has called on terrorized neigh bors for two hours boston mass march 19 por a couple of hours last night teddy tom ltw son's pet bear made things merry for the scituate residents by escaping from his cage fifty people chased him over the countryside until nearly exhausted while the more timid country folks barred their doors and hid terrorised feeling the call of the wild teddy tore the roof from his dwelling and rushed forth to see the world after he made sev eral friendly calls on the neighbors and investigated many back yards the new spread that the bear was loose and the dreamwold keepers together with the most hardy townspeople organized a posse to round up bruin at last the hardy keepers got bruin mixed up in a tangle of ropes and teddy admitted defeat being done good by t e powers or life in Chicago as she used to was before the bartzen regime â€” photos of thoughts predicted by savant dr max baff believes exposure of film near thinking subjects might show a record boston mass march 18 that photo graphs of hnman thoughts pictures of the things that pass through the brain and are later expressed in words or action may be taken on dry plates or films developed and kept as records of mental processes is predicted by no less an authority than dr max baft eminent psychologist and investigator of polytechnic institute at worcester mass as a method of taking snch thought photographs said professor baff i would suggest that a capital way wonld be to expose the film in a vacuum tank and to have the subjects whose thoughts are to be photographed placed near the tank even with their heads against it to develop the film rou after it had been nnwound ln darkness with a pair of sub jects thinking on a given subject while it was being unrolled might show some ex tremely interesting result . 30 firemen are hurt in blasts as walls fall loss 800,000 warehouses of monarch re frigerator co 1,000,000 lbs of butter and 200,000 lbs of poultry destroyed ammonia tank on roof ex plodes and building collaps es partly wrecking coyne national trade school members of department per form feats of valor 20 ac tors and actresses over come in one of 4 other fires seventy person overcome or in jured nine buildings damaged or de stroyed one million pounds of butter de stroyed two million pounds of poultry de stroyed carload of eggs destroyed property loss 1,000,000 thirty firemen were overcome by smoke and injured by explosions and falling walls some seriously 1,000,000 pounds of butter and 200.000 pounds ot poultry de stroyed with loss of 800,000 to buildings and contents in a spectacular fire which yesterday afternoon and last night de stroyed warehouses b and d of the mon arch refrigerating company 40 east mich igan street twenty actors and actresses were over come at a fire which threatened to de stroy the harmony hotel 414-420 rush street within a blocik of the warehouse fire five buildings were damaged by fire starting in a barn in the rear of 723 west b'orty-seventh place and a garage in lu rear of the residence of si rothschild 5405 wabash avenue was destroyed by flames started by crossed electric light wires shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday after noon fire was discovered in the fifth floor of the monarch refrigerating company a seven-story building occupying the block on michigan street from cass to rush street and running north half way through the block to Illinois street adjacent to the coyne national trade school shortly after 10 o'clock last night after the fire had destroyed one warehouse an ammonia tank on the roof of the second wurehouse blew up and the falling walla fell upon the coyne school destroying the engine-room and damaging the building se badly that it may have to be torn down remarkable heroism was displayed by the firemen ambulances and patrol wagons were kept busy carrying overcome nnd injured firemen to the hospitals and fed by thousands of pounds of butter the fire raged with a fierceness that defied the firemen fight lasts for hour from the land and from the river the fight was continued for many hours until scores of the firemen almost fell in their tracks from fatigue two firemen after being overcome by smoke and taken to the passavtnt hos pital insisted npon returning to the fire when they had been resuscitated and were again overcome both are in a critical condition the cause of the fire is snknown the general impression is that it wss caused by crossed wires and fire marshal sey ferllch whose brother battalion chief arthur b seyferlich was among the in jured declared last night that the origin is a mystery for more than half an hour after arriv ing at the scene the firemen were unable to work in the building so thick were the smoke and fumes hook and ladder trucks were rushed to the fire and from every possible side the firemen mounted to the roofs of adjoining buildings and began the fight warehouse b which contained only a car load of eggs was the scene of the start of the fire the flames spread with remarkable rapidity the first firemen to arrive entered the upper floors by means of the fire escapes and within a few minutes after they started to work the cry arose that they had been overcome rescue their comrades a rush was made by tbelr comrades ana all were rescued fire marshal beyfarjie who arrived at this juncture immediately ordered the men from the dangerous posi ticm a fire tower was put in action and a nowerful stream directed into the fifth floor while other streams were played unon it from adjoining buildings several companies mounted to the roof of the coyne school and others crawled to the roof ot the burning building while the flreboat graeme stewart began to pump a tream from the river notwithstanding their efforts the fire steadily gained headway and after bum continued on 2nd page ist column continued on 2nd page 3d column

Chicago examiner monday Chicago march 20 1 911 18 pages monday take a roomer or two it helps ont with the rent womferfalli rooms are advertised every day ju^t such rooms as yours the most desirable and the greatest number of people use the examiner classified coi - umns exclusively 0 p3sb-3 oft price one cent mint sy cajrja m canta oer maath r^ mn schenk s statement q now mrs schenk tell ns jnst how lt happened a l know i killed him he called me and i de not know whether i pulled the trigger or gave it to him but i am rare i did lt nobody else did it we had company q what time did the company go home a mr fraser was here yon know q what time did he go home a he is here te answer for himself q what time did you retire this morn ing a half past four or five q did mr schenk retire at the same time a yes